Professionals

What can we do to help your work?

As more and more families are impacted by a child who uses harmful or aggressive behaviour in the home (often referred to as child to parent violence or abuse CAPVA) professionals are seeking information and skills to offer support and advice to those impacted.

Whether you see this daily in your work or are aware of some families on the edge of your services, these behaviours can put a significant strain on the relationships between family members. Knowing what to say and how to respond to families can bring significant changes and help families engage with services.

At Capa, we believe that every child deserves a safe and nurturing environment to grow and thrive.

Sign up to our mailing list for professionals below and we’ll let you know when our next training sessions are. If you work with children and families and want to learn more about how you can support families dealing with challenging behaviours, book your place on our next session.

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What training do we offer?

One day training

Course title:

Working with families where a child uses harmful and/or aggressive behaviour in the home towards a parent or caregiver.

Course overview:
This one day course will help give you a wealth of knowledge and raise your awareness of this behaviour including how it impacts families. You will understand the drivers behind the behaviour. The course will consider the impact of neurodiversity on families where this is a factor and we will be looking at strategies to enable long lasting change for families and the importance of multi agency working.

Cost: £70 if booked before 27th May, £80 thereafter

Next date: 11th June 2024.

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Introductory 3 hour course

Course title:
Introduction Training for Professionals – Working with families where a child uses harmful behaviours in the home towards a parent or caregiver.

Course overview:
This 3-hour introduction will help raise your awareness of this issue, why this may happen in families, the impact it has and how to support families.

Cost: £45

Next date: 23rd April 9.30am-12.30pm, 11th July 9.30-12.30pm

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Bespoke training

How we interact and work together as a team reflects in our outcomes. If we have strong communication, trusting relationships and clear boundaries and expectations the outcomes we are working toward will be positive.

Capa training helps professionals build strong communication, trusting relationships and clear boundaries and expectations within families who are impacted by a child who uses harmful and/or aggressive behaviour towards a parent. Helping to reduce and stop this behaviour and allowing families to rebuild strong positive relationships.

Jane would be delighted to work with you and your organisation to create a bespoke training session/s to ensure that your organisational needs are met. Capa First Response can provide both online training via Zoom or Teams, or come to you to for face to face training. Get in touch with Jane to arrange a time to discuss your requirements.

Testimonials from professionals

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I really appreciated the event, it was reaffirming for the work we are doing, and highlighted some helpful learning points for our practice too. It also reinforced the need for CAPVA training in outside agencies/ schools/ local authorities and i hope we can continue to spread the word

Recent attendee on our Networking for Professionals event

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I am just about to start working with a family where the 3 boys are displaying these behaviours, the youngest is only 4 and is at risk of being excluded from nursery. My initial reaction to the referral was to blame the parenting of these boys, so thank you for enabling me to get off on the right footing with this parent and I will certainly be talking about your strategies and service with this family when I meet them next week.

Social Worker - Essex

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Fantastic! great training, really insightful and helpful to my work.

Social worker - Half day training

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Great Knowledge and so informative. In addition this has been such a helpful course to have attended. Thank you again.

Professional attending our 3 hour training

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The training was really informative. It provided a good balance between the sharing of practical strategies and ideas and exploration of possible causes. Jane’s delivery of the training was really engaging and the training was delivered at a good pace. I like that Jane provided real life examples of cases.

Feedback after attending our 3 hour session

Let’s Network!

We run Networking sessions for professionals with bite-sized education opportunities from guest speakers, covering topics such as:

Neurodiversity

Primary age children

Trauma

We develop our networking meetings around what our professional community are interested in hearing more about, so please let us know if you have any knowledge gaps we can help you fill.

You can view details of past networking sessions here. Sign up to the mailing list to be notified of our next event.

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